A HUGE earthquake could strike in the coming days as one tremor predictor predicts large quakes around the globe.

A self-proclaimed earthquake-mystic believes the alignment of planets within our solar system could cause a large quake between March 7 and 9. The earthquake forecaster, Frank Hoogerbeets, who runs ‘New-age earthquake forecasting’ website Ditrianum, said the tremors could be caused by the New Moon – when the moon begins to come out of the Earth’s shadow and starts its first phase. Along with the moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and the Sun are in positions in our solar system where they could be tugging on Earth’s tectonic plates, causing tension to build which could eventually be unleashed.

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The Dutch forecaster believes the earthquake could register at magnitude seven on the Richter scale, which is classified as a major earthquake, and has the potential to rip down buildings and be felt up to 750 kilometres from the epicentre.

Mr Hoogerbeets said: “Critical planetary and lunar geometry at the time of New Moon may trigger large seismic activity between the 7th and 9th of March, possibly over 7 magnitude.”

Mr Hoogerbeets reached his conclusion using his Solar System Geometry Index (SSGI) which “is the computation of a dataset for a specific time-frame of values given to specific geometric positions of the planets, the Moon and the Sun”.

He said: “After three years of observations, it became clear that some planetary geometry in the Solar System clearly tends to cause a seismic increase, while other geometry does not.”